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accuracy

[ak-yer-uh-see] / ˈæk jΙ™r Ι™ si /


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The company told me that it’s “pleased with the analysis” and added, “we regularly provide data to credible and verified third-party research firms and institutes to ensure accuracy and factual representation in any public reporting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

CMS has said it protects against inappropriate denials by linking vendors’ payments to quality scores that take into account the timeliness and accuracy of decisions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The government also said giving students long-term predictions of how much they might ultimately repay risked being "misleading" because of "limited" accuracy.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The company has stood behind its data’s accuracy and noted that both its algorithm and clinical sleep studies involve some degree of error.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

He insisted on helping me with the article to ensure its technical accuracy.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Still, though, the ALA's reliance on media accounts and reports from librarians remains a confounding variable in the numerical accuracies, as the body has previously noted.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024

"The chip can perform high-speed analog computation with ultrabroad processing bandwidths of 67 GHz and excellent computation accuracies," said Feng Hanke, PhD student of EE and the first author of the paper.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024

“That report was not completely accurate but there’s some accuracies in it,” said Jayna Hefford, a four-time Olympic gold medalist for Canada who is the PWHPA’s lead operations consultant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

Let the D.C. curriculum reflect the historical accuracies, including the murder — the Holocaust — of millions, particularly Jews, during World War II.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2023

In his very indifference to minor accuracies, Strindberg sometimes approaches more closely to the larger truth than men more scrupulous in regard to details.

From Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts by Edwin BjΓΆrkman




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